"At some point, this had become second nature. Seeing none, I reassured myself that I'd taken the necessary precautions to blend in: a recent trip to the hair salon for a roots refresh. An at-home chemical peel. An excessive application of that glow-y tinted sunscreen stuff. I was reasonably sure that I would not be mistaken for my daughter's grandmother."
"The birth rate for women 45 and over has shot up around 450 percent in the past three decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to around 11,000 babies in 2023. As a whole, the 40-and-up crowd notched around 147,000 births that year, triple their reproductive output in 1990. The actual number is higher-this data doesn't account for the women who became older mothers through adoption or via the increasingly popular surrog"
A 49-year-old mother reports noticing age differences among other parents at a playground and taking cosmetic steps to appear contemporaneous with younger mothers. Women giving birth at 45 and older are increasingly common, enabled by advances in assisted reproductive technology, growing awareness and acceptance, and practical factors like high child care and housing costs. The birth rate for women 45 and over rose by roughly 450 percent over three decades, reaching about 11,000 babies in 2023, while women aged 40 and up had roughly 147,000 births that year. Official data undercounts older mothers who became parents via adoption or surrogacy.
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